i'm 16 and i love building things online.
I've been obsessed with computers for as long as I can remember, long before I knew anything about business, I just liked making things and putting them on the internet.
That energy kinda got me in trouble early. In 6th grade I was already bypassing the school firewall, and eventually got caught running free movie sites and tools that unblocked any website, on their own network. They cut my internet and locked me to schoolwork-only. But I was back around it a few days later.
At 12 I built an unblocked games site. It hit over a million users, with thousands of people on it at once. Watching the live user counter go crazy on something I built was a feeling I've been chasing ever since.
Around the same time I grew a YouTube channel from zero to 30K+ subscribers and millions of views. It made me my first $10k, and I turned down a $50k offer to sell it because I loved it too much. More importantly, it taught me the real cheat code: owning my own distribution. I started using the channel to market my own products.
Then I got into apps. My first one started as a free tool I built to help people and eventually grew to thousands of active users. Right as it hit its peak, I woke up one morning to an email saying it had been removed. Funnily enough... it was on my birthday. Months of work, gone, and I hadn't made a single dollar from it. So I rebuilt the whole thing from scratch and relaunched it as a paid app. It's now done $170k+ with 5,000+ paying users, and I've pushed campaigns for it past 20 million views with influencers. I keep the names of my projects private. But those who know, know.
Every milestone gets boring fast for me. I love taking on new problems, no matter how impossible they seem, and I'm always trying to build something even crazier than before. Right now what keeps me up is my newest app and some physical hardware projects.